Name: EuPRAXIA - 3rd Collaboration Week and Symposium
Start: 2018-07-04T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2018-07-06T23:30:00+01:00
Location: University of Liverpool

EuPRAXIA - 3rd Collaboration Week and Symposium

from Wednesday, 4 July 2018 (09:00) to Friday, 6 July 2018 (23:30)

Monday, 2 July 2018
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Wednesday, 4 July 2018

09:00 Registration / Coffee
Registration / Coffee
09:00 - 10:00
Room: CTH Foyer
10:00 Welcome and practical information
10:00 - 10:15
Room: LTC
Contributions

10:00 Welcome and practical information - Carsten Peter Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)
10:15 WP Updates: I
I
10:15 - 12:30
Room: LTC
Contributions

10:15 Overall status and WP1 - Ralph Wolfgang Assmann (DESY)

10:30 Outreach and Liaison (WP8) - Ricardo Torres (University of Liverpool)

10:42 Physics and Simulation (WP2) - Phi Nghiem

10:54 High Gradient Laser Plasma Accelerator Structure (WP3) - Zulfikar Najmudin (Imperial College)

11:06 Laser Design and Optimization (WP4) - Leonida Antonio (Leo) Gizzi (CNR, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Pisa, Italy)

11:18 Electron Beam Design and Optimization (WP5) - Antoine Chance (CEA Irfu)

11:30 FEL Pilot application (WP6) - Federico Nguyen (ENEA-Frascati & INFN-LNF) Marie-Emmanuelle Couprie (Synchrotron SOLEIL)

11:42 High Energy Physics and other Pilot Applications (WP7) - Gianluca Sarri

11:54 Alternative e-Beam Driven Plasma Structure (WP9) - massimo ferrario (INFN-LNF)

12:06 Use of Other Novel Technologies (WP10) - Guoxing Xia (The University of Manchester)
12:30 Group photo (University Square) / Lunch
Group photo (University Square) / Lunch
12:30 - 13:15
13:15 WP Updates: II
II
13:15 - 14:15
Room: LTC
Contributions

13:15 FEL Application Prototyping (WP11) - Marie-Emmanuelle Couprie (Synchrotron SOLEIL)

13:25 Accelerator Prototyping and Experiments at Test Facilities (WP12) - Andrea Mostacci (Sapienza University of Rome e INFN-Roma I (IT))

13:35 Alternative Radiation Generation (WP13) - zheng shengming

13:45 Hybrid Laser-Electron-Beam Driven Acceleration (WP14) - Bernhard Hidding (University of Strathclyde)

13:55 Detectors (WP15) - Alessandro Cianchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata and INFN)
14:15 Plenary discussion: Site studies
Site studies
14:15 - 15:00
Room: LTC

15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: CTH Foyer

15:30 Status and comment of schemes 1 to 5, stage by stage: (opportunity for individual WP meetings)
(opportunity for individual WP meetings)
15:30 - 17:00

17:00 Meet and Greet
Meet and Greet
17:00 - 19:00
Room: CTH Foyer
Thursday, 5 July 2018

09:00 Review of latest plasma and laser parameters: (opportunity for individual WP meetings)
(opportunity for individual WP meetings)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: LTC

10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: CTH Foyer

11:00 Plenary discussion: ESFRI Roadmap Application
ESFRI Roadmap Application
11:00 - 12:30
Room: LTC

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:15

13:15 Beam quality delivered to FEL and HEP: (opportunity for individual WP meetings)
(opportunity for individual WP meetings)
13:15 - 14:30
Room: LTC

14:30 Coffee
Coffee
14:30 - 15:00
Room: CTH Foyer

15:00 WP Summaries and Final Conclusions (verbal reports)

15:00 - 16:30
Room: LTC

18:00 Adjourn - End of Meeting

18:00 - 19:00
Friday, 6 July 2018

10:00 Registration (school children)
Registration (school children)
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Symposium: Welcome - morning session
10:30 - 10:45
Contributions

10:30 Symposium: Welcome - morning session - Carsten Peter Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)
10:45 Dream Beams - Ceri Brenner (STFC)
Dream Beams
- Ceri Brenner (STFC)
10:45 - 11:15
Particle accelerators have been using pretty much the same technology since they were invented back in the 1930’s. The recent development of ultra-high intensity lasers and laser-driven plasma acceleration could change this trend forever. Dr Ceri Brenner, from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, will share her experiences working with the world’s most powerful lasers in her talk Dream Beams at the Symposium Quantum Leap towards the Next Generation of Accelerators.
11:15 A glimpse into the science and technology of attosecond light sources - John Tisch (Imperial College London)
A glimpse into the science and technology of attosecond light sources
- John Tisch (Imperial College London)
11:15 - 11:45
The femtosecond barrier was broken in 2001 when the first isolated, attosecond-duration (1as=10-18s) light pulses were generated by firing extremely intense laser pulses with carefully controlled waveforms into neon gas atoms. The origin of attosecond photon emission is the laser-driven acceleration of ionised electrons; an atomic-scale accelerator. The duration of those first attosecond pulses was 650as. The current world record stands at 53as. To put this into some kind of perspective, this is the time required for light to travel a distance equal to the size of the smallest virus. Attosecond light pulses provide scientists with the shortest controllable probes currently available. Such pulses, used as exquisitely sharp temporal “scalpels”, are allowing previously immeasurably fast dynamics in matter to be tracked and, potentially, even controlled at a fundamental level. Though a relatively new field, a growing number of groups around the world have established attosecond measurement capabilities in their laboratories, and are employing these powerful new tools to conduct ground-breaking experiments in atoms, molecules and condensed phase matter. Attosecond measurements have been made of photo-ionisation dynamics, multi-electron relaxation processes, and ultrafast nuclear rearrangements in molecules. The attosecond time-delays in photoemission from surfaces has been measured for the first time – effectively “timing the photoelectric effect” – and recently, attosecond control of the electrical and optical properties of dielectrics at optical frequencies has been demonstrated, with implications for PHz signal processing. Using the attosecond facilities in the Laser Consortium in the Physics Department as an exemplar, this talk will provide an accessible introduction to the science and technology behind the generation, characterisation and application of attosecond light pulses.
11:45 Probing the secret of life with accelerator driven light sources - Peter Weightman (University of Liverpool)
Probing the secret of life with accelerator driven light sources
- Peter Weightman (University of Liverpool)
11:45 - 12:15
Life operates in a world governed by the second law of thermodynamics, which is sentence of decay disorder and death and we know that that is the fate of all living things. The interesting question is how do living things establish themselves and manage to put off their thermodynamic fate for so long? Life evolved at room temperature and the energy available in a room temperature environment, kT, is 6 terahertz (THz) where k is Boltzman's constant and 1 THz is an electromagnetic wave with a frequency of 10 12 Hertz and a wavelength of 300 microns. We thus expect that the biological organisation of living things will exploit THz radiation and clearly a way to investigate this would be to irradiate simple things, such as bacteria, with THz radiation and see what happens. Unfortunately there is a "THz gap" in the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation where we cannot make a powerful source of radiation. Laboratory sources can only generate about 100 microwatts of power, which isn't enough to do useful experiments. Fortunately electron accelerators are now becoming available that can generate tens of kilowatts of power in this frequency range and it is now becoming possible to study living things with this radiation. This lecture will give an account of some of the interesting results that are coming out of this research.
12:15 Symposium: Closing remark - morning session
12:15 - 12:30
Contributions

12:15 Symposium: Closing remark - morning session - Ralph Wolfgang Assmann (DESY)
12:30 Lunch / industry exhibition / hands-on-experiments / school competition
Lunch / industry exhibition / hands-on-experiments / school competition
12:30 - 14:30
14:30 Symposium: Welcome - afternoon session
14:30 - 14:45
Contributions

14:30 Symposium: Welcome - afternoon session - Arnd Ernst Specka
14:45 Industry opportunities in accelerator facilities - Peter Mcintosh
Industry opportunities in accelerator facilities
- Peter Mcintosh
14:45 - 15:15
Particle accelerators not only provide powerful research tools for the exploration of matter, or understanding the properties of materials at the atomic level, but they are also used to manage our health, ensure our security, advance our manufacturing capability, enable safer energy production and improve our environmental efficiency. Practical utilisation of particle accelerators is advancing and more applications are being pursued, with a remit to make such platforms more compact, simpler, combining functionality and adopting novel and more advanced accelerator technologies. My overview will highlight how particle accelerators in industry are currently utilised, giving examples of how such developments have been realised at accelerator facilities across Europe and also provide some indication for how future industrial applications are projected to evolve.
15:15 Laser Technology in 2025 - Cristina Hernández Gómez (STFC)
Laser Technology in 2025
- Cristina Hernández Gómez (STFC)
15:15 - 15:45
The continued advancement of short pulse lasers with high average power is crucial for the development of important applications. There are several technologies being used in the next generation of lasers systems from more flash lamp technology to solid state diode pumped technology. Diode pumping has been identified at the CLF as the future route for increasing the repetition rate, and hence average power, of high power lasers. We describe the current performance achieved and what advances are expected in this field in the next decade that would enable a wide range of applications of high power lasers.
15:45 Coffee break and discussion / industry exhibition
Coffee break and discussion / industry exhibition
15:45 - 16:15
16:15 System integration in large scale research infrastructures - Georg Korn (ELI-Beamlines)
System integration in large scale research infrastructures
- Georg Korn (ELI-Beamlines)
16:15 - 16:45
16:45 Enabling new capabilities with laser plasma technology - Paul Dumont (SourceLAB)
Enabling new capabilities with laser plasma technology
- Paul Dumont (SourceLAB)
16:45 - 17:15
17:15 Symposium: Closing remark - afternoon session
17:15 - 17:30
Contributions

17:15 Symposium: Closing remark - afternoon session - Carsten Peter Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)
19:30 Reception
Reception
19:30 - 20:30

20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 23:30